PRR Steam Audio Recording: Pacing a PRR M1a Mountain (1955)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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John M. Prophet III made this recording in September of 1955. This is definitely what I'd consider the best vintage audio recording of a PRR locomotive....you can clearly hear the chuffs, the drivers clanking, as well as the cars driving by them. And let's not forget that gorgeous Pennsy whistle!
From Track Description...
"A Class M1a on an eastbound freight picking up speed after slowing down at Duncannon, Pa. The engineman acknowledges the car pacing and recording the locomotive with short whistling."
From "Steam On The Standard Railroad Of The World Vol. II" by Semaphore Records. Really great album!
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The M1 was one of the finest steam locomotives of any RR. Well-balanced pieces of superb engineering able to haul anything on rails, from fast passenger trains to coal drags.
Also, it takes an excellent engineman to smoothly pick up speed as heard here.
Wow. My great great grandfather worked for the Pennsy around this time I think. He would have operated one of these at some point. He was one of their best engineers at the time.
Although it's the K-4 that gets most of the praise for its splendid appearance, the M1a ran it a very close second. Thanks for posting and the audio is fantastic.
The M1s were used to pull trains that usually take two K4s to pull.
The people that gave this a thumbs down must be morons! Pennsy steam was AMAZING and this is simply AWESOME!
New York Central fans.
These trains were a sight to behold and had a unique whistle. Back in 2010 a certain steam engine train passed through the outskirts of my hometown. It was used for certain celebration not far away but then it was heading back from where it came from. Their diesel counterparts don't compare to these trains from an era long by.
I love this one man. Especially around 2:00 when you hear the engine start to gain some leverage on the train, and the rods start making noise from the momentum. I can vizualize it all in my head, please post more if you have them.
I love the audio recordings man. I can all but see it in my head. The "clunking" rod noise really set it off for me & brought the image to my head.
Thanks again so much for sharing these with us and please post as much as you can and are willing to.
I have video made in 56 or 57 by a late cousin who was an engineman on the prr, its the altoona to tyrone area. Lots of m1 action in them
Post them
I think we can all be glad that one made it into preservation.
That was true up until dieselization started to occur, then the I1, L1, and even H class engines started getting the 3 chime whistles from retired passenger engines. There's a few videos on my page that feature the I1 Freight engines with those whistles, not the Banshee.
almost sounds like a horse galloping
animal16365 thats why there called "the iron horse" guy.
It is a horse galloping....an IRON HORSE!
Very cool! I can almost imagine a video of this because I Railfan the area where this was recorded. Love that whistle!
It's a soulless world without steam.
Sir the goose bumps are there. Thank you!!!!!!!
What a noise these Mountains could make! (It could have something to do with Belpaire's firebox being implemented. The air drawn in to make the draft must send some of it's acoustics up the stack.)
Glad to see someone ref. the Belpaire firebox... my Lionel K4 Pacific has one. Still researching the firebox a bit.
+Jim Griffin It's a Belgian invention, like most major steam locomotive leaps in progress.
Although I've yet to see a square-stacked locomotive elsewhere...
Pennsy was probably the only US Railroad to use the Belpaire extensively on its system.
@@TrainSimUSA Great Northern did as well.
3:26 nice Pennsylvania 3 Chime whistle.
Simply magnificant!
This is awsome
awesome sound !!
well yes P-RR had some real good locos that all ended in the scrap yard ! real same !
at least they made an effort. most of the blue-prints and documents are around still, and they did a Noah's-Baggage-Car sort of thing where they saved one of each unique PRR engine. excluding the T-1s which were all scrapped before this started, and the J1 which was a carbon copy of the C&O's engines.
unlike SP, which basically preserved a GS4, a GS6 and AC12 and sold everything else to the highest bidder. its a miracle that any of their engines survived.
I'm glad a few were saved. Two of the Pennsylvania's K4s were saved. Sad how none of the M1as were saved.
@@MidwesternRailfan One M1b was saved at least. I imagine it would be quite an expensive undertaking to bring it back to life but it would be awesome, wouldn't it?
@@sharkymcsharknose2979 it was built as an m1a, but converted later. Regardless it would be awesome to do. That’s one thing I’d do if I win the lottery, donate a large sum of money to get 6755 running again.
If the steam age had lasted into the 1960s, we could’ve seen what a penn central m1 could’ve looked like.
To be honest, if the Pennsy and New York Central were profitable enough that they’d keep Steam around, they wouldn’t have merged.
We want PRR steam back!!!!
This does confirm that the M-1's had similar whistles to the K-4's. Wonderful audio to a nice collection of shots. Too bad I never lived to see them through my old hometown.
Q2 freight duplexes also had a 3 chime. A banshee would've sounded silly on those monsters!
Sounds like she's running about 50 mph
Towards the end I think the car couldn't keep up without getting arrested! Lol
Go to 3:27 for a real M1a whistle.
I like the shot at 1:00.... an M1a and a GG-1... how much cooler can it get really ?? PRR was such a wonderful RR company.
@heartlandrails He isn't making money off of them, so I see no reason to complain.
To Jason Dolder: What's the speed range? - Probably 45 - 60mph or so at the end is my guess. I'm 61 yrs old and remember both B&O Q4b and P-7 class steamers through Defiance, Ohio inmid 50's. Also NKP class H5a 2-8-2's on LE&W in Fostoria, OH. '55 and '56. Eric Griswold.
It sounds like she was running 50 mph. But later she was running faster.
Speed limit was 50 mph for PRR freight trains. So he's probably doing about 35 at the beginning, gets a roll on the train and is sitting on 50 by the end.
What have the "most famous" german railway-directors learned in USA, when they have visited the PRR? - nothing. The outside look to the boiler construction says it all. Poor german constructions were buildt, no gainswall, using the same diameter for the complette boiler.
Great Sound - great Engine
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Thansk for Posting!
Only 2 prr frieght engines had chime whistles, class m-1 & class j-1 plus k-4 all other prr freight locos had the singel tone banshee whistles.
Are these the same as the UP BIg Boy "VUUUURRRRP" whistles? That's the real steam whistle sound, not "Schwooooo"
THIS, and not the much-ballyhooed NYC Niagara, was America's GREATEST STEAM LOCOMOTIVE. If only Pennsy would have given them Scullin disc drivers and bullet-nosed streamlining, they would probably still be running now! Oh yes, but retaining the proprietary Pennsy top-mounted headlight. And NEVER an oil burner (U.P. really messed up there!)
I like m1a prr
Whats the speed range here?
Are any of them preserved?
One, in the Pennsylvania Railroad museum in Strasburg, PA(right across the street from Strasburg Railroad’s East Strasburg Station)
@@EvilTurkeySlices I actually saw one of those.
stealing pictures off the internet is still stealing. my friend John Diobko has several of his pictures used here. did you get permission?
I am sure they performed well, but the looks yuk.
All business. Especially the "look" at the end!
Pennsy locos had a personality of their own. No other USA RRs did save for SP and GN. And maybe RDG. B&O? C&O? Not really. Dull as dishwater.